El Pimientera Elementary School

Over winter break, I traveled to El Progresso, Honduras. For 8 days, I as well as 22 other Virginia Tech students laid the foundation for an elementary school in the village of Buenos Amigos just outside of Villa Soleada. Before we arrived at the village, the school consisted of a tin roof and a dirt. When it would rain, school would be cancelled for the day. Together, we dug a 4 foot trench, constructed rebars, mixed and poured over 50 bags of concrete, and began to build the walls of the school. My service trip to Honduras taught me a lot about the actual construction and execution of a design, and what it takes to make a sketch come to life. I attached photos I took of my experience, and a before and after shot.